Ships meme

[epershand]

So, I've actually got a long meaty post in the works, but for now, here's a meme from killerbeautiful. My patterns, they are... strong.

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms.

• Elim Garak/Julian Bashir: Star Trek: DS9


• Ethan Raine/Rupert Giles: Buffy the Vampire Slayer


• Clark Kent/Lex Luthor: Smallville and also Superman comics in general


• Dick Grayson/Tim Drake: Batman comics


• Remus Lupin/Sirius Black: Harry Potter


• Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr: XMen movieverse


• The Doctor/The Master: Doctor Who


• Sam Beckett/Al Calavicci: Quantum Leap


• Herman Melville/Nathaniel Hawthorne: history


• AE Housman/Moses Jackson: The Invention of Love

Comments

from Marjorie

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, man, Melville/Hawthorne.

I half want to ask here "are there actual stories in this fandom?", but the answer is bound to be "yes," and I'm just not sure I want to know any more than that...

Re: from Marjorie

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I think there technically are in Yuletide, but I refuse to read them. This is an interest that only extends as far as having excited conversations in Hawthorne's barn...

Incidentally, Marjorie, you can sign in with open id and your LJ username if you want to get emails from DW when people respond to your comments.

(Look at the icon! It's an actually-related-to-the-Hawthorne-house excuse for using it!)

Re: from Marjorie

[eccentric_hat]

I'm trying this now.

(It was Melville's house, for the record. I remember because I sent a souvenir magnet to my Melville teacher, not because anything the tour guide said had anything to do with Melville.)

Re: from Marjorie

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Oh, right, it was! I thought that it might be, but I have been to so many Hawthorne houses it seemed more likely that it was another one of those...

Re: from Marjorie

[eccentric_hat]

This comment doesn't seem to have been e-mailed to me. Hm.

I can't remember if you read Hawthorne's Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny? It's basically a very short journal of a time when H. was left alone at home with his son. Melville shows up once or twice and they have conversations. It's not really all that exciting, but it is kinda neat.

Re: from Marjorie

[epershand]

Try playing around with your settings. IIRC, you have to add an email address to an Open Id account, and you can also do things like creating a friends list and maybe even uploading icons?

Sad fact: I have only read "Young Goodman Brown" and the introduction to The Scarlet Letter. And I haven't read any Melville. I've been thinking about seeking out their correspondence, but Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny sounds really interesting too.

Re: from Marjorie

[eccentric_hat]

I don't seem to have settings? I'll stop bothering you about this, though, as it isn't terribly important.

I haven't read even the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, so I think we're about even on Hawthorne reading--Twenty Days counts in my mind as half a book, maybe.

Re: Melville, you haven't read Bartleby the Scrivener? I thought we had a conversation about that book once. But then I haven't read it, either, so that doesn't mean much. Moby-Dick is certainly worth reading. It's long and sometimes it's powerfully boring, and it's really really masculine, and people who love it tend to have had teachers who loved it, but in addition to all those things it's really pretty awesome. Also, there is Ahab's Wife, which in my heart of hearts I love more than Moby-Dick itself...

Re: from Marjorie

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Bartleby the Scrivener was staged by another student in the class where Ariel staged Flying Lessons. It was a very literal translation to play, though. It's as though I watched a staged reading where one person was the narrator and other people voiced the other characters.

[oliviacirce]

What, no Aral Vorkosigan/Gus Vorryuter?

No, but seriously, your patterns are hilariously transparent, except I do not think I knew you were a Dick/Tim shipper!

I am now trying to think of my own top ten. Hmmmmm.

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Hey, see how I totally have at least one buddy ship? (Sam/Al). Otherwise it is pretty much all trust issues all the time. (Also look at the percentage of that list that is middle aged or older. Consider that all my Clex love is for futurefic. Oh my patterns.)

Ges/Aral is totally part of my pattern, but I don't wander around thinking about that ship, even to the degree I think about Miles/Gregor. ::ashamed::

And yes, I am totally a Dick/Tim shipper and it is totally Te's fault.

ETA: The icon is here to say: Molly eliminated us in favor of Melville/Hawthorne! Woe!

[oliviacirce]

Ariel now notices her typo. What is up with not editing DW comments? Anyway, whatever, you knew what I meant.

Sam/Al is only kind of a buddy ship, and it is totally a buddy ship with trust issues. I hear you on not wandering around thinking about that ship, though, especially because in re: conversations we had in London you are probably over-identifying with Miles's romantic patterns.

[epershand]

Sam/Al is totally a buddy ship. They trust each other completely. They have traded bodies multiple times in canon. It's not my fault Al's also canonically homophobic.

Hahaha, our conversation in London. That was the best ever. I'm not the one who actually thinks Miles is a good role model though.

[oliviacirce]

Right, but it is a buddy ship with implicit trust issues if it ever actually goes anywhere beyond canon, because, oh look, homophobia! All I am saying is that it fits your patterns.

I really do think that Miles is the best role model, it is just confusing because you are totally my Ellie Quinn. But actually, you are totally correct, because when it comes to relationship models I do not really follow Miles. I still don't want your mercenary fleet, though.

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I will just have to give my mercenary fleet to Zombie Jeremy Bentham then.

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Random thought: I've never actually seen any Hous/Jackson (Iackson!) fic. I act like I have read fic, but really all I have read is RL weepy poetry. Huh.

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Oh, I think you can't edit comments if someone has already responded to them.